Your metaphor or mine: belief ascription and metaphor interpretation
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Y. Wilks, J. Barnden, and J Wang

A prototype for a Conversational Companion for Reminiscing about Images (2010)
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Y. Wilks, S. Worgan, A. Dingli, R. Catizone, R. Moore, D. Field and W. Cheng
Computer Speech and Language

The Electronic Bureaucrat (a curiosity from 1970)
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Y. Wilks

The Companions: Hybrid-World Approach (2009)
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Y. Wilks, Alexiei Dingli, Roberta Catizone & Wei Wei Cheng
IJCA109 Workshop on knowledge and reasoning in practical dialogue systems 2009

On whose shoulders? (2008)
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Y. Wilks
in Computational Linguistics 2008

The Semantic Web as the apotheosis of annotation, but what are its semantics? (2008)
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Y. Wilks
A version is in IEEE Intelligent Systems May/June 2008

Is there progress on talking sensibly to machines? (2007)
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Y. Wilks
Science Vol. 318, Nov'07, pp. 927-928

A retrospective view of Synonymy and Semantic Classification (2007)
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Y. Wilks, J Tait

Unhappy bedfellows: the relationship of AI and IR (2007)
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Y. Wilks

Obituary for Karen Sparck Jones. IEEE (2007)
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Y. Wilks

Key Digital Technologies Underpinning Content and Applications (to appear)
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Y. Wilks, M. den Besten

Ontotherapy, or how to stop worrying about what is there (2006)
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Y. Wilks

The History of Natural Language Processing and Machine Translation (2005)
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Y. Wilks

Empirical determination of thresholds for optimal dialogue act classification (2005)
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N. Webb, M. Hepple, Y. Wilks

Error Analysis of Dialogue Act Classification (2005)
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N. Webb, M. Hepple, Y. Wilks

Dialogue Act Classification using Intra-Utterance Features (2005)
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N. Webb, M. Hepple, Y. Wilks

Data-Driven Language Understanding for Spoken Language Dialogue (2005)
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N. Webb, H. Hardy, M. Ursu, T. Strzalkowski, Y. Wilks

Making sense about sense (2005)
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N. Ide, Y. Wilks

Human dialogue modelling using machine learning (2005)
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Y. Wilks, N. Webb, A. Setzer, M. Hepple, R. Catizone

Unhappy Bedfellows: AI and IR (2004)
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Y. Wilks

Artificial Companions.
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Y. Wilks

A Retrospective view of Synonymy and Semantic Classification.
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Y. Wilks, J. Tait.

Lexical Tuning.
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Y. Wilks, R. Catizone.

Vision-language Integration in AI: a reality check
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K. Pastra, Y. Wilks.
In proceedings of ECAI 2004.

Machine Learning approaches to human dialogue modelling.
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Y. Wilks, N. Webb, A. Setzer, M. Hepple, R. Catizone

What's in a symbol: ontology and the surface of language--a dialogue.
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S. Nirenburg, Y. Wilks.
Journal of Theoretical and Experimental AI (JETAI). (submitted)

Fodor-"Fodor" bites back.
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Y. Wilks.
In Bouillon and Busa (eds.) Natural Language and the Lexicon. (in press)

Human-computer conversation.
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Y. Wilks, R. Catizone.
In Encyclopedia of Microcomputers. Dekker, New York. (2000)

Can we make Information Extraction more adaptive.
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Y. Wilks, R. Catizone.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-00-02. (2000)

IR and AI: traditions of representation and anti-representation in information processing.
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Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-00-01. (2000)

On The Ownership of Text.
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Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-00-08. (2000)

Information Extraction.
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J. Cowie, Y. Wilks.
In R. Dale, H. Moisl and H. Somers (eds.) Handbook of Natural Language Processing. New York: Marcel Dekker. (2000)

Large Vocabulary Word Sense Disambiguation.
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M. Stevenson, Y. Wilks.
In Ravin, Y. and Leacock, C. (eds.) Polysemy: Theoretical and Computational Approaches. (2000)

Evaluating two methods for Treebank grammar compaction.
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A. Krotov, M. Hepple, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
Journal of Natural Language Engineering, 5(4). (2000)

Human-Computer Conversation.
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Y. Wilks, R. Catizone.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-99-04. (1999)

What's in a symbol: ontology, representation and language.
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S. Nirenburg, Y. Wilks.
(1999)

Unsupervised Learning of Word Boundaries with Description Length Gain.
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C-Y. Kit, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings CoNLL99 (Computational Natural Language Learning) ACL Workshop. Bergen. (1999)

IR and AI: traditions of representation and anti-representation in information processing.
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Y. Wilks.
In the Proceedings of IEE Conference on IR and AI, Glasgow. (1999)

Can We Make Information Extraction More Adaptive?
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Y. Wilks, R. Catizone.
In M. Pazienza (ed.) Proceedings of the SCIE99 Workshop. Springer-Verlag, Berlin. Rome. (1999)

Experience with a Language Engineering Architecture: 3 Years of GATE.
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H. Cunningham, R. Gaizauskas, K. Humphreys, Y. Wilks.
Proceedings of the AISB'99 Workshop on Reference Architectures and Data Standards for NLP. Edinburgh. (1999)

Description of the University of Sheffield LaSIE-II System as used for MUC-7.
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K. Humphreys, R. Gaizauskas, S. Azzam, C. Huyck, B. Mitchell, H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of the Seventh Message Understanding Conference (MUC-7). Morgan Kaufmann. (1999)

Combining Weak Knowledge Sources for Sense Disambiguation.
(Postscript)
M. Stevenson, Y. Wilks.
Proceedings of the International Joint Conference for Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-99). Stockholm. (1999)

LaSIE Jumps the GATE.
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Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas.
In T. Strzalkowski (ed.) Natural Language Information Retrieval, Kluwer Academic: Berlin. (1999)

Generation of Adaptive (Hyper) Text Explanations with an Agent Model.
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K. Bontcheva, Y. Wilks.
Proceedings of the European Workshop on Language Generation (EWNLG '99). Toulouse, France. (1999)

Uniform language Resources Access and Distribution.
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W. Peters, H. Cunningham, C. McCauley, K. Bontcheva, Y. Wilks.
Proceedings First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Granada, Spain. (1998)

Is Word-sense disambiguation just one more NLP task?
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Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings. SENSEVAL Conference, Herstmonceaux, Sussex. Also appears as Technical Report CS-98-12, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield. (1998)

Implementing a Sense Tagger in General Architecture for Text Engineering.
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H. Cunningham, M. Stevenson, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of Conference on New Methods in Language Processing (Nemlap3), Sydney, Australia. (1998)

The Virtual Corpus approach to deriving n-gram statistics from large scale corpora.
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C. Kit, Y. Wilks.
In C. N. Huang (ed.), Proceedings of International Conference on Chinese Information Processing Conference, Beijing. (1998)

Is Word Sense Disambiguation Just One more NLP Task?
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Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-98-12. (1998)

The Grammar of Sense: Using part-of-speech tags as a first step in semantic disambiguation.
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Y. Wilks, M. Stevenson.
Journal of Natural Language Engineering 4(2). (1998)

The "Fodor" - FODOR Fallacy Bites Back.
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Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-98-13. (1998)

Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar.
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A. Krotov, M. Hepple, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of the COLING-ACL'98 Joint Conference. (1998)

Sense Tagging and Language Engineering.
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M. Stevenson, H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98) Brighton, Sussex. (1998)

Word Sense Disambiguation using Optimised Combinations of Knowledge Sources.
(Postscript)
Y. Wilks, M. Stevenson.
In Proceedings of COLING-ACL'98, Montreal, Canada. (1998)

Language processing and the thesaurus.
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Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings National language Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1998. Also appeared as Technical report CS - 97 - 13, University of Sheffield, Department of Computer Science. (1998)

An Empirical Approach to Lexical Tuning.
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R. Basili, R. Catizone, M-T. Pazienza, M. Stevenson, P. Velardi, M. Vindigni, Y. Wilks.
Proceedings of First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) Workshop on Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications. Granada, Spain. (1998)

Combining Knowledge Sources for Word Sense Disambiguation.
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Y. Wilks, M. Stevenson.
Proceedings of the Conference, Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP). Tzigov Chark, Bulgaria. (1997)

Whats in a symbol: ontology and the surface of language--a dialogue.
(Postscript)
S. Nirenburg, Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-97-14. (1997)

Language Processing and the Thesaurus.
(Postscript)
Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-97-13. (1997)

Information Extraction: Beyond Document Retrieval.
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R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-97-10. (1997)

Compacting the Penn Treebank Grammar.
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A. Krotov, M. Hepple, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-97-04. (1997)

Information Extraction as a core language technology.
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Y. Wilks.
In M-T. Pazienza (ed.), Information Extraction, Springer, Berlin. (1997)

Using a Language Independent Domain Model for Multilingual Information Extraction.
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S. Azzam, K. Humphreys, R. Gaizauskas, H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of the IJCAI-97 Workshop on Multilinguality in the Software Industry: the AI Contribution (MULSAIC-97). (1997)

Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon.
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Y. Wilks, M. Stevenson.
Proceedings of the SIGLEX Workshop on Tagging Text with Lexical Semantics: Why, What and How?, Washington, D.C. (1997)

GATE -- a TIPSTER-based General Architecture for Text Engineering.
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H. Cunningham, K. Humphreys, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of the TIPSTER Text Program Phase III, Morgan Kaufmann, California. (1997)

Software Infrastructure for Natural Language Processing.
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H. Cunningham, K. Humphreys, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing (ANLP-97), Washington, DC. (1997)

Eliminating deceptions and mistaken belief to infer conversational implicature.
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M. Lee, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings IJCAI97 Workshop on Conflict, Cooperation and Collaboration in Dialogue Systems, Nagoya. (1997)

CONVERSE: a conversational companion.
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D. Levy, R. Catizone, B. Battacharia, A. Krotov, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings 1st. Internat. Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation, Bellagio, Italy. (1997)

Senses and Texts.
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Y. Wilks.
In N. Ide (ed.) special issue of Computers and the Humanities. (1997)

Combining Language Generation and Belief Modelling into a Flexible Hypertext System.
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K. Bontcheva, Y. Wilks.
Flexible Hypertext Workshop, Southampton. (1997)

The grammar of sense: Is word-sense tagging much more than part-of-speech tagging?
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Y. Wilks, M. Stevenson.
Sheffield Department of Computer Science, Research Memoranda, CS-96-05. (1996)

Arthur Frederick Parker-Rhodes: a memoir.
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Y. Wilks.
In C.W. Kilmister (ed.) Philosophies: Proceedings Alternative Natural Philosophy Assn. (ANPA17), Cambridge. (1996)

Sense Tagging: Semantic Tagging with a Lexicon.
(Postscript)
Y. Wilks, M. Stevenson.
University of Sheffield, Computer Science Dept. Memoranda in Computer and Cognitive Science, CS-96-10. (1996)

GATE -- an Environment to Support Research and Development in Natural Language Engineering.
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R. Gaizauskas, H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks, P. Rodgers, K. Humphreys.
In Proceedings of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-96), Toulouse, Louisiana. (1996)

GATE -- a General Architecture for Text Engineering.
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H. Cunningham, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-96), Copenhagen. (1996)

New Methods, Current Trends and Software Infrastructure for NLP.
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H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas.
In Proceedings of the conference on New Methods in Natural Language Processing (NeMLaP-2), Bilkent University, Turkey. (1996)

An ascription based approach to speech acts.
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M. Lee, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING96), Copenhagen. (1996)

Software Infrastructure for Language Engineering.
(PostScript)
H. Cunningham, Y. Wilks, R. Gaizauskas.
In Proceedings AISB Workshop on Language Engineering for Document Analysis and Recognition, Brighton, UK. (1996)

Evaluation of an Algorithm for the Recognition and Classification of Proper Names.
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T. Wakao, R. Gaizauskas, Y. Wilks.
In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING96), Copenhagen. (1996)